Tianrui Li received his B.S. degree, M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from the Southwest Jiaotong University, China in 1992, 1995 and 2002 respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK • CEN), Belgium from 2005-2006, a visiting professor at Hasselt University, Belgium in 2008, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia in 2009 and the University of Regina, Canada in 2014. And, he is presently a Professor and the Director of the Key Lab of Cloud Computing and Intelligent Technique of Sichuan Province, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. Since 2000, he has co-edited 6 books, 10 special issues of international journals, 14 proceedings, received 3 Chinese invention patents and published over 200 research papers (e.g., IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Information Science) in refereed journals and conferences (e.g., KDD, IJCAI, UbiComp). Two papers were ESI Hot Papers and Eleven papers was ESI Highly Cited Papers. His Google H-index is 30. He was recognized as the Top 1% Scientists (ranked 725/3031) in the field of Computer Science based on Thomson Reuter's Essential Science Indicators (ESI) in June 2017. He serves as area editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI), editor of Knowledge-based Systems (SCI) and Information Fusion (SCI), etc. He has served as IEEE ICCC2015-2017 chairs, ICMLC2017-2018 chairs, ISKE2007-2017, CRSSC2015, CWI2014, JRS2012 program chairs, IEEE HPCC 2015, GrC 2009 program vice chairs and RSKT2008, FLINS2010 organizing chairs, etc. and has been a reviewer for several leading academic journals. He is an IRSS fellow, a Distinguished Member of CCF, a senior member of ACM, IEEE, CAAI, ACM SIGKDD member, Chair of IEEE CIS Chengdu Chapter, Treasurer of ACM SIGKDD China Chapter and CCF YOCSEF Chengdu Chair (2013-2014). Over sixty graduate students (including 8 Post-Docs, 12 Doctors) have been trained. Their employment units include Microsoft Research Asia, Sichuan University, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, Didi and Baidu. They have received 2 "Si Shi Yang Hua" Medals, Best Papers/Dissertation Awards 13 times, Champion of Sina Weibo Interaction-prediction at Tianchi Big Data Competition (Bonus 200,000 RMB), Second Place of Social Influence Analysis Contest of IJCAI-2016 Competitions.